As the App Dev Senior Tech Lead Analyst, you will responsible for the technical vision, architecture, and execution of Financial Analytics application. You will lead a world-class technology team, while remaining deeply technical and contributing to the core development of the platform. This is a unique opportunity to blend strategic leadership with hands-on engineering to build a product that will have a direct and measurable impact on the front lines of our business.
Key Responsibilities
- Platform Architecture & Development: Lead the design, architecture, and hands-on development of a scalable, secure, and resilient agentic AI platform from concept to production.
- Technical Leadership & Hands-On Engineering: Serve as the lead engineer and technical authority, guiding critical decisions on frameworks, technologies, and infrastructure. You will be expected to write code, build prototypes, and lead by example.
- Strategic Roadmapping: Partner closely with product management and senior business leaders in banking to define the product strategy and technical roadmap. Translate complex business needs into elegant and scalable technical solutions.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner effectively with horizontal AI platform teams, enterprise architecture, and external vendor partners to leverage existing capabilities, influence roadmaps, and accelerate delivery.
- AI & ML Integration: Drive the strategy for integrating and operationalizing Large Language Models (LLMs), agentic frameworks (e.g., Google ADK, LangChain,), and other AI/ML technologies to solve real-world banking challenges.
- Operational Excellence: Implement and champion best-in-class engineering practices, including CI/CD, automated testing, infrastructure-as-code, and robust monitoring to ensure enterprise-grade reliability.
- Business Impact: Define, measure, and report on key performance indicators (KPIs) related to platform adoption, user productivity, and the ultimate impact on business outcomes like wallet share growth.
- Compliance & Security: Ensure the platform adheres to the highest standards of data privacy, security, and regulatory compliance required in the banking industry.
Qualifications & Experience
- Education: Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Experience: 12+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 2+ years in a leadership role, leading high-performing engineering teams.
- Hands-On Leader: Proven experience as a "player-coach" who can lead from the front, contribute to the codebase, and mentor junior and senior engineers.
- Platform Building: A strong track record of designing, building, and launching scalable, distributed, cloud-native platforms from the ground up.
- Domain Knowledge: Experience in the financial services, especially Financial Analytics is a significant plus. An understanding of banking workflows and data is highly desirable.
- Communication Skills: Exceptional ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and to articulate a clear technical vision that aligns with business goals.
Technical Skills
- Backend & Distributed Systems
- Languages: Java full stack/Spring Boot (enterprise standard) and Python Go (plus)
- Architecture: Microservices, domain-driven design, event-driven systems
- APIs & Integration: REST/gRPC; Apigee, Kong
- Data & Messaging: PostgreSQL/Oracle, MongoDB
- AI / GenAI /
- LLM & Agentic Frameworks: Deep expertise in building production-grade agentic systems using GCP as primary (ADK, Vertex AI)
- Model Context Protocol (MCP) & Integrations: Experience integrating agents with enterprise tools and data sources using MCP or equivalent context-sharing patterns
- Knowledge Graphs & Reasoning: Building and leveraging knowledge graphs for context enrichment, reasoning, and workflow automation
- RAG & Knowledge Systems: End-to-end RAG pipelines using enterprise search + vector stores (e.g., Elastic, Pinecone) with grounding, evaluation, and optimization
- Model Lifecycle & Governance: Model evaluation, monitoring, prompt/version control, and Responsible AI / MRM compliance
- Enterprise AI Integration & Data
- API- and event-driven integration of AI into enterprise workflows
- Data platforms: Databricks, Spark
- Cloud & DevSecOps
- Cloud Platforms: Strong experience with GCP (preferred); working knowledge of AWS; Azure exposure optional (not a dependency)
- Containers: Docker, Kubernetes (GKE/EKS)
- CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Jenkins
- Observability: Splunk, ELK, Prometheus, Grafana
- Security & Compliance
- Secure coding, API security, Zero Trust
- Data privacy, encryption, access control
- Regulatory compliance and AI governance (MRM)
What We Offer
- A leadership role in a high-priority, transformative initiative with executive visibility.
- The opportunity to build a cutting-edge AI platform
- A competitive compensation package including salary and benefits.
- A collaborative and innovative culture that values technical excellence and business impact.
Qualifications:
- 10+ years of relevant experience
- Experience in implementing projects
- Experience in systems analysis and programming of software applications
- Demonstrated Subject Matter Expert (SME) in area(s) of Applications Development
- Demonstrated knowledge of client core business functions
- Demonstrated leadership, project management, and development skills
- Relationship and consensus building skills
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
- Master’s degree preferred
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Primary Location Full Time Salary Range:$141,440.00 - $212,160.00
In addition to salary, Citi’s offerings may also include, for eligible employees, discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards. Citi offers competitive employee benefits, including: medical, dental & vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs. Citi also offers paid time off packages, including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays. For additional information regarding Citi employee benefits, please visit citibenefits.com. Available offerings may vary by jurisdiction, job level, and date of hire.
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Skills Required
- 12+ years software engineering experience with leadership
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related
- Master's degree
- Proven player-coach leadership, mentoring, and team management
- Designing, building, and launching scalable, distributed cloud-native platforms
- Deep expertise with LLMs and agentic frameworks (Google ADK, Vertex AI, LangChain)
- Experience integrating agents with enterprise data sources using MCP or equivalent patterns
- Experience building RAG pipelines and knowledge systems; familiarity with Elastic and Pinecone
- Experience with knowledge graphs and reasoning for context enrichment
- Strong backend and distributed systems experience (microservices, DDD, event-driven)
- Java and Spring Boot experience
- Experience with Python
- Experience with Go
- API and integration experience (REST, gRPC, Apigee, Kong)
- Experience with PostgreSQL, Oracle, and MongoDB
- Experience with Databricks and Spark
- Strong GCP experience (Vertex AI); AWS working knowledge
- Container and orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes (GKE/EKS)
- CI/CD experience (GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
- Observability experience (Splunk, ELK, Prometheus, Grafana)
- Security, data privacy, encryption, API security, Zero Trust, and regulatory/AI governance (MRM) experience
- Experience in financial services or Financial Analytics
- Excellent communication skills translating technical vision to non-technical stakeholders
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